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1. ACDSee
2. ACDSee PowerPack
3. Ad-Aware
4. DC++
5. foobar2000
6. Forecastfox
7. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)
8. Nero
9. Nero InfoTool
10. NOD32 for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP (32-bit)
11. SpeedFan
12. Total Commander

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.3.0.0 (May 3, 2005)

   Quote from Azureus FAQ:
   
   What's up with memory usage and cpu load?
   
   * Memory usage is known to climb up and drop back repeatedly when using java jre 1.4.2 with some configurations. The cpu load is higher too.
   Please use latest Java 1.5.

2. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.2.0.3 Beta 70 (May 2, 2005)

   Azureus 2.3.0.0 IS OUT! :D
   
   New Features:
   
   * Core | Client support for the 'trackerid' announce extension
   * Core | Client support for the 'min interval' announce extension
   * Core | Added options to disable scrape entirely or just for non-running torrents
   * Core | RSS Feed parse APIs added to plugin interface
   * Core | Non-blocking sockets based TCP tracker implementation
   * Core | Client identification plugin interface
   * Core | Separate protocol payload and overhead stats
   * Core | Data deletion can now defer to Recycle Bin and Trash under Windows and Mac OS X, respectively
   * Core | Distributed Database
   * Core | Decentralised tracking
   * Core | Magnet URI for location of decentralised torrents
   * Core | Ability to update built-in plugins independently of the core
   * Core | Diagnostic collection for system properties and config settings
   * Core | added option to move newly completed seeds to the end of the seeding list, rather than the front
   * Core | Support for I2P plugin
   * Core | Network selection support (public, i2p, tor)
   * Core | Inter-client peer exchange
   * UI | Option to disable small fonts under OSX
   * UI | Console support for aliases
   * UI | Torrent export option added to SWT UI
   * UI | Keyboard shortcut parsing system
   * UI | System tray menus for setting global upload and download bandwidth limits
   * UI | Synthesized speech alerts for Mac OS X; Go to Azureus / Preferences to enable it
   * UI | New file icon for Mac OS X
   * Plug | Added local host configuration setting for statusmailer
   * Plug | Reworked CSS for tracker web pages to create old and new styles
   * Plug | StartStop Rules: First Priority ignore Rules: 0 Peers and SeedsPeers Ratio
   * Plug | RSS Feed added to tracker web pages
   * Plug | Tracker stats added to tracker web pages
   * Plug | Generic Messaging API: inter-client message passing
   * Plug | Joltid Peer Cache plugin is now bundled with Azureus
   * Plug | I2P plugin
   
   Changes:
   
   * Core | Smarter re-announce interval handling, especially for lopsided swarms
   * Core | Added many new peerid identifications
   * Core | First piece priority option now also prioritizes last piece of file
   * Core | NAT check functions even when downloads have already been started
   * Core | Update check can now check via configured proxy
   * Core | Rewritten download code: decreased cpu usage and faster speeds in LAN network environments
   * Core | Network IP_TOS option now sets required registry setting under Win2K/XP
   * Core | Favor establishing inbound peer connections, to increase the health of swarms with firewalled clients
   * Core | Improved seeding unchoking algorithm: distributes data more evenly
   * Core | Anti-leech code to prevent optimistic unchoke leechers
   * Core | Reduced threads required for multiple torrents
   * Core | Relaxed cross-torrent file locking to permit multiple read access
   * Core | changed HTTP user-agent to include OS and java version
   * Core | max cache size limited to 32M less than VM size
   * UI | Reintroduced download completion alerts in Mac OS X (use System Preferences / Sound to set the alert sound of choice)
   * UI | For Mac OS X, contextual menu items no longer carry images for better compliance with Apple Human Interface Guidelines
   * UI | RFE #1092614: Informational popup messages now auto-close after 5 seconds - unless the message window is closed manually, or if the mouse is over it / details view is open (the timing will be 'reset' then)
   * UI | Miscellaneous cosmetics updates for Mac OS X
   * UI | Bug #1112278: https:// URLs now autopaste in Open URL window
   * UI | Main menu bar should now be more streamlined in its arrangement
   * UI | Console view will now display information logged (for the duration of the application session) when the Console view is closed
   * UI | ETA and remaining now take into account DHD files
   * Plug | More choices in First Priority ShareRatio
   
   Corrected bugs:
   
   * Core | IPFilters loaded from static config file weren't working
   * Core | Fix re-announce interval bug when zero peers in swarm
   * Core | Send uninterested message when complete while using do-not-download feature
   * Core | Optimistic Connect, when seeding, no longer drops just random connections
   * Core | Better recovery from corrupt resume data
   * Core | Better handling of invalid torrent save locations
   * Core | fix for SSL (https) problems introduced by changes in JDK 5.0
   * Core | fix for hash-fails when running with cache + incremental file creation enabled
   * Core | Fix scrape processing stall bug when scrape url was invalid
   * UI | Corrected save dialog behaviour on Make Torrent Wizard regarding file selection
   * UI | Bug #953619 concerning Mac OS X: Double-clicking .torrent files now activate Azureus with the expected Finder dialogs (Dragging files to the Dock icon will continue to malfunction for the indefinite future)
   * UI | Bug #1120995: Improper validation could allow unreasonably low global upload cap
   * UI | Main window no longer tries to steal focus on opening (Mac OS X)
   * UI | Pop up messages no longer try to steal focus (Mac OS X)
   * UI | Resolved fuzzy dock icon display under Mac OS X if Column Setup is opened
   * UI | Upload caps for individual transfers now display more sensible values if global upload cap is set to unlimited
   * UI | In My Torrents, a category view will no longer prevent its corresponding table view's horizontal scrolling
   * UI | Download bars should no longer disappear when the main window is minimized (Mac OS X)
   * UI | Certain table column contents no longer 'disappear' when a row is selected (Mac OS X)
   * Plug | StartStop Rules: Autostart Seed Count Only and Prefer Large Swarms removed First Priority

3. 
   Review - HARDiNFO 2008 Professional

   5.0 Build 2900 (Dec 13, 2004)

   Nice, but "Everest" from Lavalys does the same job better and free.

4. 
   Review - EVEREST Home Edition

   1.10 (Jun 11, 2004)

   The Great Successor of the famous AIDA32.
   Excellent, as usual.

5. 
   Review - AIDA32

   3.93 (Apr 22, 2004)

   Lavalys Consulting Group, today officially announced that it has appointed effective January 1, 2004 former AIDA32 project leader, Tamás Miklós to its executive management team. In his new role of CTO and Executive Vice President of Engineering Research and Development, Tamás will head up R&D for Lavalys including the development of its flagship award winning EVEREST, a breakthrough technology that enables the cost-effective delivery of network audit and change management.
   
   http://www.lavalys.com/i...page=view&article=8